Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael:
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from May 17, 2019

Turning over the toy box and jamming together the gloriously mismatched musical Lincoln Logs, Legos and Tinker Toys from Tin Pan Alley pluggers, pickled egg tavern weepers, lockstep soul ensembles, skinny-tie power poppers, Eurotrash ravers, moontanned art school rockers, drunken soccer anthems and anything else that seems like a good idea at the time. There are no guilty pleasures.

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Oh yeah so Ray Davies apparently had a near-death experience as a teen and required an emergency tracheotomy and an extended stay in hospital. While recovering, he would watch people milling about below from the hospital balcony. That was the inspiration for Waterloo Sunset.

Ray of course in the topdrawer of Writers - & not too much like TheBeatles or Dylan. Altho' 'Waterloo' is a bit Beatley. Has been suggested '19th Nervous Breakdown' is Kinky, otoh - a good point I think...

1:57pm
dan:

@Revolution
Out of all the singer/songwriters of the British Invasion, Ray Davies is in a world of his own.